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“By physically travelling to new places, you mentally travel to new places..” - we all know this intuitively and yet it can be so hard to act on it. This sage advice
The pandemic has proved that simple things like going out drastically help from reducing the bad feelings that come from excess time being stuck in your own thoughts.
I prefer to be with my own thoughts than have my thoughts infected by the average person... who is profoundly stupid and has nothing of real worth to say.
This pandemic made me realize that, if I have to improve myself, it starts with me. I am trying to start a baking business, beginning with selling health muffins first. Didn't go so well, but I will still try. Also, I am working on another novel (I hope to see it as a graphic novel series)
@@RiotCyborg nothing to do with being 'enlightened', I just function cognitively at a higher level than most of society, that worryingly seems to be getting dumber and dumber.
The pandemic made me realize that I can’t live in a big city anymore. I feel like a hamster in a cage. I felt anxious all the time and smoked far too much. I decided to move back to my parents in the country side one month ago. I’m a new man now. I wake up early, I work out, i quit smoking. I have a new look on life and I feel at peace and relaxed. Working from home in these natural environment feels like heaven to me.
I like a mix of both. I moved to a mid-sized city. I love nature but I couldn't give up the good things about a city: better dating, better food, faster internet, closer stores, more things to do, etc.
I confess that nowadays I've been really stuck in my own life, I got depression, not sleeping too well, complaining all over my ears, my house seems like it's shrinking and I feel like living in a cage, school is bad, it all started in the end of 2019, when I realized how life works, I was living something hard, I got worried, my life was just changing so fast, parents, friends, physical, mental healthy, I started to live alone for a while just to think about it all, then I thought a lot, I got depression in the beginning of 2022, grades went way down at school, parents blaming me all the time, thanks to Joey I am improving my life as little as I can, thx a lot bro
Here's some harsh truth for you: You probably feel stuck because your are stuck. Our emotion follows our motion. But don't worry, start taking small steps everyday and you'll get out of your rut. Stay blessed y'all. 🧡
People who feel trapped often showcase the inability to say “no”. Sometimes, it's this inability that leads them to the life that they're living now. They won't be able to say no to their family, to their partner, to their friends, to their boss or to their coworkers.
Hell, not a whole lot changed for me in quarantine. I've been living in a very small mental and physical space for years. It has taken it's toll on me, despite me being primarily introverted. I didn't think it would be much worse than normal. Now it's just the world telling me "stay inside and away from other people" rather than me just doing it anyway.
@@XavierSIU It might be a bit different for me. I graduated high school in 2019 when I was 19 now today im 22, and still don't have an actual job and I have an ambition to be an author. Plus im an introvert, so I spend a lot of tie by myself. This quarantine has in a way really affected me. I guess it kinda makes me feel trapped and sad about my life soar after high school and what career path I wanna take.
Probably a mix of everyone going through some shit and subscribing to data givers to see what we're all googling. It makes looking for topics to write about easier if you can see what demographics are searching what and what they're responding to.
@@jothishprabu8 @JOTHISH PRABU bro my life isnt really that miserable to be honest. Lol if you want to be happier in life just try and have a positive perspective and another thing is to find your purpose in life. Mine is my religion islam. I recommend you research it and all other ways of life and find the best one for you but be true to your heart and yourself lol safe.
"instead of hiding away in a tower like Rapunzel.." It suddenly hit me, why she fell in love with an unknown boy so fast: because she got the biggest flow of dopamin of her life with him. #bigbrain
i was almost happy when quarantine started in the beginning of 2020, i didn't realize over the course of 1.5 years i will be in the worst mental state of my life. I'd feel guilty of taking pleasure from over stimulating things. I realized that reasonable amount of suffering may also be necessary.
you make me want to engage in a longer conversation w you... I share my empathy first of all. :) And Im curious about the guilt you describe. My story is certainly similar, yet for me, the pandemic resembled a solid personal 10 years of disease that i had gone through, in a confinement of my own. I mean that i was taken away from my birth nation upon contracting mono (you can call it the worst marriage arrangement in the free world). I literally watched the world start understanding my situation.. i saw us all experience the inability to work normally, the separation from loved ones, isolation, everything Id been. I often wondered if anyone of you felt trapped against their will down to developing muscle cramps and migraines that further paralyzed them. not even metaphorically. (Im ready to hug anyone who's gone through such pain ♥︎ this loss of freedom) Im not a moody person in life, for real, Im a really uplifted gal hehe Sh** just happens to the best of us. ..I want to finish w saying i literally became a zoom meeting star for children now haha... I taught art and very funny storytellings during the pandemic. There s an outcome at some point.,goddammit. hehe Now I just feel so ahead, i use the desperate collective situation to fill ppl with sunshine (im being so tacky here)haha But no joking, this has illuminated my heart, schedule and even bank account. So I strongly believe there is tremendous potential to open right now. For all of us. Even if me too, im not out of the woods yet. (did any of this make sense? haha not sure) peace to you, im still curious about the guilt. and anyone who felt understood in this video, ONE LOVE It was f***ing great.
I miss work; I miss going to bookshops and buying new comics; I miss walking through streets and mall, just exploring; Most of all, I miss wanting to explore new options so as to start again my home baking business from scratch.
Hey, you speak my mind! Same with me! Word by word! I would be happy if I can connect with you & all who are going through the same pattern at life currently!
@@CaroLMilo-yz7fk I’m going through the same what @seaque mentioned & I’m trying to get out of it. Please, if possible can we connect in insta or anywhere? I would really like to get out of rut inside my head :/
I’ve travelled. Met people. Been kind. Tried to keep my relationships at peace. Even tried to regrow some. But yet I feel empty. Stuck. One of my close friends tells me I’m stuck and need to grow and the place I’m in isn’t good for me. I felt that. My other friends who’s smoke and party are happy to see me and love me being here. But I feel I need to do more. I work out, I hike and play with my dogs. But after leaving the military nothing makes sense. Truly makes sense. So I’m thinking of becoming a cop but even that in some way is nagging me
I'm not any good at socializing (I'm old, and my friends are getting married and so on) so I have now focused in growing my skills in arts and crafting, and I have to say that those activities are improving my mental health by a lot.
Oh my goodness, I pretty much can relate to everything you said. Especially feeling stuck in my head, it can be miserable constantly being in your head.
Its so sad because when covid started i literally just graduated high school ready to move on with my life, but literally couldnt (at least to the extent i wanted to go) i feel lost in life right now with no sense of direction. I know i gotta work to have a house, food etc but at what cost? My youth? My time? I feel like im being left behind and no one even sees me. It feels like im drowning and people walk by, they may even glance but no one helps..
I'm stuck in a PhD in the fourth year. None of my papers ever gets accepted. I hate it, but I am not ready to give up on it because I have invested everything in it. My whole life and Health. But everyday I wish it was over.
"Getting out" for me at least doesn't change anything. I'm stuck in a cycle of depression, anxiety, sudden burst of motivation and this "feeling stuck" feeling. Everything feels weird, other people feel empty to me like puppets stuck in a matrix. Working a job feels pointless as much as doing nothing. It feels like my brain started to work manualy like I changed dimensions or something and everyone tells me its normal or ok to feel like this. Everything I do feels like I'm wasting time, but for what? Everything, happyness, sadness, joy or pain.
You read my thoughts exactly! I'm going through this right now and it's so strange to me. I'm in this annoying mental lingo and feel like I'm wasting my life away. I find it difficult to wake myself up out of this. It feels like a curse.
@@VaniZo-jm2tl If there's anything that the covid lockdown did for me was made me more isolated. I also find myself in a similar position where I do find this energy to get things done but overtime I often lose that energy. At this moment I've made some small changes but overall I know that I must make even bigger ones in order to simply seek out what I'm looking for.
Heart heals to see guys like you trying soo hard to cheer up depressed and anxious people. It's a very noble thing to do in someone lifetime. Thank you.
This reminds me of the pain management phenomenon where focusing on something or things outside of yourself helps relieve pain. It opens up your mind to everything else that is happening around you, giving perspective to it, and helping you to move past what you are feeling in that moment. You make great videos man! Very needed!
(FACTS OVA FEELINGS). So Many People are Stuck because They don't actually want awareness they want to feel good they don't understand that awareness is the path that they will have to take in order to genuinely get them there
“The physical environment in which you are apart of is an extension of yourself….the physical size, the literal square footage, is sort of the square footage of your existential surroundings” Thank you for the revelation as to why the wealthy insist on an absurdly large home 😂.
The quarantine is often compared to prison. Need to keep a routine to don't loose your mind. As Jocko Wellins said "in even bad situation, you need to find the positive, there is always something positive to get, so when something bad happen, say "good"." I understood that it was an opportunity to me and I mustn't waste it. I took that time (and still) to ask myself about my future, and take classes about many themes to feed my mind, learned new thing that usually I don't have time to. Tried to don't loose all my time on Netflix without goal. Thanks for the motivation.
Learn to live without friends, leisure activities and things that you rely on. Enjoy life as it naturally is And Then bring those things back in and life will be amazing, you won't be relying on those things so whether they are their or not, life is good
@@deepakchris284 Everyone's situation is different but you should spent time alone for the most part, not needing to go out with people, or if you do go, go alone. And for leisure activities just cut down on them a lot. They are wants not needs. If you can live happy without relying on these things, when you bring them back in everything will more enjoyable. At least in my experience
No joke I started getting obsessed with this girl over this entire lockdown eventually getting diagnosed with clinical depression and bpd....I need to escape this place asap
@@ShahabAhmad1398 bcz the girl is my batchmate and I had a crush on her....then I told her that and we had a long convo but then she likes a senior and then yeah I just coudnt let go...and boom started going downhill
@@realzhella6817 I broke up with my gf this year and it hurt wayyyy more than I expected to the point where I was obsessed with having an answer for "Why it happened". Eventually I just thought to myself why care about an answer/things you can't control. Why care about people who are robbing you of time, memories, and happiness.
You just perfectly described what's been happening to me for the last couple months. I left my job because of burnout, and I thought the cure was some serious solitude and downtime. And yes, that's part of it, but 3 months in, and I've had too much. I literally was switching into what you described as the existential dread, my thoughts becoming more and more pessimistic (not what you want when you're focused on getting well). So I started doing ehat you recommend and just got out of the house. Started learning piano, came up with a new work plan that has nothing to do with my past career. And I feel more hopeful, life feels less small. Thanks for the great content. Wishing anyone reading this peace and access to the outdoors 💜
I'm sitting at home since December without work, any hobbies (games addiction only), but with depression. I don't feel that half of the year has passed, cause, really, all days are the same. It's awful. Thank you for the video, I'll try to go out of this
I already and always make my bed, clean my space. Moved back to home state a yr ago. Life pushed me out of a state I was in for 6 years. I still feel stuck! I get often, with Meetup events and meet a ton of new people. Yet I still feel lost and stuck. I've had a ton of new experiences. I get out, do yoga, cycle, pray and mediation. Still lost!+
It’s funny how simple the solutions to a lot of our problems are, I really appreciate your videos. It seems like we overcomplicate our inner struggles a lot of the time and it prevents us from seeing the path forward. Keep the uplifting content coming!
I’m such an introvert and I love being alone but I know this is what I need to do. I’ve gotten to the point of questioning my existence and now I know why. You don’t know how much this video means to me, thank you!
This video has described most of my adult life, I never needed much of an excuse to stay inside, covid and working from home amplified the situation. It got to the point that just doing the food shop became the most exciting time of my week. I tend to do a lot more thinking and a lot less doing. It won’t be easy to change but I know I can’t keep living like this
The reason you gave here is pretty much what I have felt this entire time during the lockdown in my country To begin with, India had one of the worst times in history and we witnessed it. It began with a major blow when I failed in an exam in the month of March, I broke up with my boyfriend. Then again, I failed another exam. I had lost my job and pretty much all my self-confidence I had constant fights with my family members and all this took a heavy toll on my self-confidence. March April, may and june are by far the worst months of my life and to top it all in may I lost my beloved to grandma to covid. What a hell life has been lately really. this channel though gives hope that everything is fine and once this shitshow is over, everything will get back to normal and we will all smile and laugh and have fun like we use to.
I think he is the only person on RU-vid, who does not recommended us to watch his other videos, but instead tells us to get off RU-vid at the end of his video. Great respect to you! You really care about our wellbeing..🧒🏽
this is...surprisingly apt and well-timed for me. I know this was probably addressed at the people who have spent a long time quarantined, but I've literally been basically self-quarantining for the past 5 years or so and indeed that has made me rather inert (when quarantine hit, my lifestyle did not change at all). however in two days I'm apparently getting a hand-me-down car, which will be a first for me (actually owning a vehicle). currently trying to figure out how to best leverage this newfound access to the outside world, but I definitely agree with the overall thesis here. (from what I understand, the optimal way to proceed is to find people/environments that are positive influences on you and try to extract as much of that positive influence as possible. but that's pretty abstract and I anticipate difficulty in finding such people/environments and successfully integrating with them. definitely gotta try, though, and even just getting out in the world is bound to be analogous to leaving plato's cave, so wish me luck I guess.)
So glad I found your channel. It helped me find other channels that are good as well. Thanks for your perspective on so many subjects. Keep up the good work.
Sitting at home or going out, I end up feeling the same anyway. There's nothing I want to do in life, I am only interested in things that don't end up in good job opportunities. And the one thing that does, you need to be insanely lucky to blink out in. I'm just stuck in a forever loop trying to find out wtf I want to do in life.
This is exactly what I’ve been thinking! My friends usually tell me that I have to learn to be by myself and enjoy doing things alone. I understand their point of view but I never feel like being told that helps. Now I know that if I’m feeling down it’s because either my room is messy or I haven’t socialized enough. Thank you!
